"If you were making a movie, you wouldn't, say, learn to build every automobile in the movie from scratch, would you?" Right, but it's still important to know how the automobile works, and that might include even a rough sketch of how it is built. Look at "Minority Report", that whole fight scene in the car factory. Otherwise, you end up with ten pages of technical goofs on IMDB.com, written by embittered engineers with nothing better to do with their time. =) But I agree with everything you said, LSD. I was looking for galleries once before R'osity on Lycos.com, and came across an ENORMOUS number of Bryce pix that were nothing more than just a mountain coming out of water with a default texture and a default sky. Made me feel a bit better about my artistic skills at the time. =) And I have learned more in a month of perusing the forums, answering questions, helping to answer questions, and asking questions myself and getting them answered, than I did in seven years (fact!) of random Brycing on my own with no tutorials save the ones on the Content CD.